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Standoff between the FBI and the White House over the public release of a classified memo

We haven't read it, but it purports to be about FBI surveillance and missteps in the Russia investigation

President Trump wants it released, but the FBI says it has quote grave concerns

Plus congressional retirements a fatal train accident on the way to a Republican retreat and in case you didn't notice

Peace love and understanding have not broken out since the state of the Union address earlier this week

I'm Tamer Keats. I cover the White House for NPR. I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department

I'm Danielle Kurtz-laven political reporter. I'm Kelsey Snell. I cover Congress and I'm Ron Elving editor correspondent and Kelsey and Ron are currently

Sharing a microphone in this clown car of a studio. There are so many of us

We just don't have enough microphones for all of them. So that is that

And that is because we have Ryan here in the studio at least for the first half of the podcast to update us on

The memo the hashtag memo memo get memo release the memo memo memo. Okay

Let's explain what this is. This is a

Not secret because everybody's talking about it. Everybody knows that it exists

It's classified at this point. Yes, it is classified. It was created by

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee or it was it was drawn up by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee of

Republican by the name of Devon Nunes as well as his staff

We don't know exactly what's in it yet because it has not been released

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